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[–] self@awful.systems 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Bonus: Ye Gods, her interview with an Urbit developer is really, truly, amazingly awful: https://archive.is/5I7Td

how does it always come back to urbit?

The goal of my interview with you is to find out more about the technology behind Urbit, rather than focusing on its social scene like that annoying group of journalists desperate for their 15 minutes. So, let’s take some time to get to the core of Urbit’s technology.

I can only skim it for now, but it feels like this article deserves its own post. it looks like this was written as a reaction to the articles we’ve already seen that call out how fucking weird the fascists around urbit and the community/cult they’ve formed are; notably, the summary of urbit’s history here specifically elides any talk about the neoreactionary politics that led Yarvin to start urbit in the first place (references to which are themselves scattered across the system’s early specs)

[–] earthquake@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

It probably does deserve its own post, I'm not sure I can do it justice. "Urbit is an attempt to make computers great again", the phrase "from scratch" appears 7 times, "Urbit is doing God’s work to make the perfect computer", [in a linked tweet] "Urbit fulfills prophecy", "It’s [Urbit] a massive virtue signal".

I missed the comments section at first. "This is one of the things Urbit got right. Especially useful to pique people's interest and keep them invested by giving them a unique, cool identity." Jurij claiming that Urbit is amazing because...usernames?

And then there's the link to Plunder, which the NixOS-heads will have to investigate to figure out if it does what it says:

"Plunder is a new programming model where programs run forever. Hardware restarts are invisible to the software, as is moving a running program from one physical machine to another."

Finally, Haywire has such lovely readers as *squints* "Eva Brawn".

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 10 points 10 months ago

urbit is the most unintentionally funny software ever created, the more posts about it the better

[–] self@awful.systems 6 points 10 months ago

oh I got you covered! as soon as I get the chance I’ll draft a new urbit thread for this. I believe our last one covered Plunder which is indeed a trip from a Nix standpoint; I should dig that thread up to reference

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 10 months ago

also it's Rachel fucking Haywire